The Guardsman, Vol. 158, Issue 2. City College of San Francisco

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115 classes cancelled, what’s next for City College?

INSIDE

‘I did not ‘hack’ anything’ Instructor Sam Bowne defends himself by filing gov. complaint

Students, faculty and supporters deliver 3,000 messages to Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Susan Lamb, appealing class closures due to low enrollment at City College, Monday, Aug. 22. (Photo by Nathaniel Y. Downes)

By Calindra Revier

@sfbreakingnews crevier@theguardsman.com

The Guardsman

Conflict continues to divide City College as the argument over class cancellation brings more confusion to campus.

A 25 percent drop in enrollment has now placed City College in this emergency situation. Because of this and issues around accreditation, stabilization funds were granted by the state.

It is estimated that 115 classes have been cancelled this semester according to an Aug. 29 email sent by Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Susan Lamb.

Students, faculty and staff are now asking questions as to why classes contin-

ued to be cancelled and where the stabilization funds are.

“The format of the budget is the same as it has been for years,” Chancellor Arthur Tyler explained in an interview with The Guardsman. “The only adjustment that was allowed to be made then was that we put some million dollars in the reserves as we said we would do if we actually got some of the stabilization funding.”

Tim Killikelly, president of American Federation of Teachers Local 2121, disagrees with the administration’s decisions to cut classes.

“To cancel classes in the same sort of logic, that you’re canceling them under normal circumstances, makes no sense,” he said. “So now instead of creating a stable situation, which is what the funds

are designed to do, instead they’re creating an unstable situation. Students don’t know what’s going on.”

On Aug. 25 faculty, staff, students and their supporters met at Ram Plaza to march up to Lamb’s office and deliver her over a thousand petitions asking for the immediate ceasing of all class cancellations.

“There are a lot of students that are just left in the dark because of ill-communication or no opportunity to actually communicate,” said Allen Deon Saunders, one of the students attending the protest. Lamb told the protesters the administration is trying to offer more clarity on the situation by posting a list of class cancellations on City College’s website.

Another issue regarding class cancellations is the unexplainable anonymous

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Radius 99, new restaurant plays it local

By Elisabetta Silvestro

@sfbreakingnews esilvestro@theguardsman.com

The Guardsman

The Cafeteria’s neighboring restaurant got its annual makeover and opened its new doors on Aug. 27 as Radius 99 to the hungry City College students who now can get local food prepared by their fellow students from the culinary arts department.

It was 11:20 a.m., and while Sly and the Family Stone, a ‘70s San Francisco band, played through the speakers, the students and instructors of the culinary program were making sure everything was ready for their first day of opening.

Fifteen minutes after the scheduled time, at 11:25, Radius 99 was open and operating. The first clients said they’ll miss Dot’s, but they liked the new food.

“It sounds interesting,” student Patrick Haney said. “The 99 mile thing is pretty cool.”

Every fall, Smith Hall’s restaurant gets renewed with a new theme. Last year, it was Dot’s Diner, for an all-American dining experience. This year, the theme rotates around the proximity of the produce.

Photo by Nathaniel Y. Downes

Everything has to come from a 100-mile radius, music included – that’s why it’s called Radius 99.

The students from the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies department manage everything, from the food preparation to the serving, under the supervision

of instructors Vince Paratore and Keith Hammerich, who decided the restaurant’s theme and menu.

“Students do everything. I just make sure they don’t bring the place down,” Paratore said. “In the morning we have lecture, then we come here, then we go back to class,” he said. “It’s fun isn’t it?”

While Paratore handles the management side of the operation, Hammerich takes care of the kitchen – he’s the chef of Radius 99.

The menu they crafted is multi-ethnic and affordable. They offer sandwiches, salads and main dishes for a range that goes from $5.25 for a grilled cheese sandwich, which features fromage blanc, jack, caramelized onions and apples and housemade apple-walnut sourdough, to a $6.25 Thai pork with broccoli, cashews and rice noodles.

The restaurant is open Monday to Friday for lunch, from 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

The first week’s manager, third-semester culinary student Stephanie Marinese, said the idea of Radius 99 is to serve food made with local produce with a variety of plates to fulfill almost all ethnicities. » Radius 99 story continued on page 4

Lousisiana State University Health Center New Orleans accused City College network security and ethical hacking instructor Sam Bowne of demonstrating LSU’s security vulnerabilities to his class. » Story on page 2

Student remembered

Police shooting of Alejandro Nieto continues to anger community Hundreds held a vigil and marched honoring Alejandro Nieto and protesting alleged police brutality. » Story on page 5

Sexual assault experiences CCSF student Ariana Bindman’s opinion piece. In the words of Wendy Davis: ‘I’ll not yield.’

“I didn’t ask to get told by a man sitting next to me on MUNI that I ‘looked good’ while he stuck his hands between my legs.,” Bindman said. » Story on page 7

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Instructor claims his civil rights were violated

By Santiago Mejia

@santiagomejia santiago@theguardsman.com

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City College instructor Sam Bowne filed a federal complaint against LSU Health Center New Orleans (University Health) for allegedly violating his rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) retaliation policy.

The complaint was filed Aug. 29 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

If found at fault, University Health may be fined anywhere from $100 to more than $25,000 by the HHS, depending on the violation found by HSS. Bowne, who teaches ethical hacking and network security, said he filed the OCR complaint after University Health released a misleading press release on Aug. 19.

The press release stated University Health “experienced a computer security breach” and that Bowne was “demonstrating potential vulnerabilities of computer system(s) to his class.”

The News-Star, a Louisianabased newspaper, with reports of 3.5 million online page views a month, published a story on the incident with the alleged mislead-

exposed files containing medical data of more than 6,000 patients.

He noted that these problems have been exposed for at least a year.

“Please alert your technical and legal staff. I am happy to answer any questions you may have,” concluded Bowne’s complaint.

University Health officials never replied to the complaint, but instead released the “fabricated story” to the press.

Following the press release and news stories, Definitive Data Security founder John Poffenbarger sent an email to City College officials encouraging them to address the matter and suggested a formal investigation against Bowne.

Poffenbarger cited SC MagaIllustration courtesy of Elliot Rosenstein/MCT zine as his source of the incident.

“My employer was then ing press release. search engine to find University requested to censure me for this SC Magazine, which produc- Health’s publicly exposed data. falsely alleged criminal activity,” es news content on information He sent his findings in an email Bowne said. “This was vicious and technology and IT security, cited complaint to their HIPAA compli- dishonest retaliation against me The News-Star and published its ance office on June 17, to inform for reporting the HIPAA violation own story titled “Professor hacks them of their security problems. (on June 17).”

University Health Conway in According to HIPAA, anyone University Health’s press demonstration for class.” can file a complaint and entities release stated that HIPAA requires “I did not ‘hack’ anything, cannot retaliate against a person them to inform individuals affector ‘demonstrate’ anything in a for doing so. ed and the media of the event, class,” Bowne said, in an Aug. 29 In the email complaint, but Bowne suggests that the press web post. “I was not even teach- Bowne listed security problems release violates the HIPAA retaliing any classes at (the) time. The from compromised FTP servers,a ation policy. allegations are baseless, false, and common way to transfer files on libelous.” the Internet from one computer Bowne said he used Google’s to another, to dozens of publicly

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calls that some students have received telling them that classes have been cancelled that have not been.

Gregory McCarthy, a biotechnology student at City College, was initially signed up for an English 93 which was among one of the classes recently cancelled and so re-enrolled in another open English 93 course.

On Aug. 21 McCarthy received a call from a private number informing him that his new English 93 course was also being cancelled. The caller did not say his name, but said he was with City College.

“The caller ID said anony-

mous, private caller,” McCarthy said. “He sounded like a male in between early to mid-twenties.”

On Aug. 26 McCarthy went to the classroom where the canceled class was originally to be held and was surprised to find the class was in session.

Lamb addressed these phone calls by saying, “We heard about that (the calls) in a couple situations and we don’t know who’s calling.”

Lamb said this is not how class cancellations are handled.

“We never do a cancellation by telephone. What we’ve been doing is cancelling them in class. The

Correction: In Volume 158, Issue 1, of The Guardsman, it was reported in the Pacific Islanders Studies certificate story that Rachel Fisi’iahi received an honorary Critical Pacific Islanders Studies certificate.

However, she did not receive an honorary certificate. Along with Samuel Elekiko, and Bree Gutu, there are discussions to try and award them certificates posthumously.

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instructor is there and they can direct you to other sections,” she said.

Despite the administration’s explanations, many students and teachers still believe saving classes with low enrollment rather than cancelling them was vital to get the school back on track and raise enrollment.

“The legislature understands that that’s why they passed the money to stabilize the college.

That includes everything the college does. What’s more important than students getting their

classes?” Killikelly said.

Faculty has gone down 11 percent while administration has gone up 27 percent, according to the 2011 to the projected 2015 budget.

“To insure that people feel like they’ve been heard what I’ve asked the Special Trustee to do is to forgo approving the budget until we can have another hearing, and he’s agreed to do that,” Tyler said.

The special meeting is set to take place on Sept. 5 at 2 p.m.

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news Sexual Assault: ‘Yes means yes’ bill clears California Legislature

By Katy Murphy

@katymurphy kmurphy@bayareanewsgroup.com

Oakland Tribune/MCT Yes-means-yes should replace no-means-no as the standard for sexual consent, or the lack of it, on California’s public and private college campuses, the Legislature decided Aug. 28.

Senate Bill 967 would require all colleges taking student financial-aid funding from the state to agree that in investigations of campus sexual assaults, silence or lack of resistance does not imply a green light for sex, and that drunkenness is not an acceptable defense.

“It does change the cultural perception of what rape is,” said Sofie Karasek, an activist who has fought for changes in UC Berkeley’s practice. “There’s this pervasive idea that if it’s not super violent then it doesn’t really count.”

California’s unique legislation comes amid a national movement demanding solutions to a problem that has plagued campuses for generations.

In the past two years, college students, alumni and the U.S. Department of Education has challenged colleges to do more to prevent attacks, educate students about consent, support rape victims and discipline offend-

ers as federal anti-discrimination laws require.

Gov. Jerry Brown has until Sept. 30 to sign the bill and generally does not comment beforehand.

Gov. Jerry Brown, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. (Photo by Jose Luis Villegas/Sacrament Bee/MCT)

“If the governor signs it, this will lead the entire country, the nation,” said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, who called the approach a “paradigm shift.”

“It’s very difficult to say no when you’re inebriated or someone slips something into your drink,” he said.

The “affirmative consent” standard in the bill makes everyone responsible for ensuring in

advance -- verbally or non-verbally -- that a sexual act is desired.

The traditional no-means-no standard, the bill’s supporters argued, unfairly burdens victims by making them prove they had clearly conveyed that they did not want to have sex, but that it happened anyway.

Twenty years ago, the idea of gaining explicit consent before engaging in sexual activities was considered so extreme it was -literally -- laughable. Saturday Night Live in 1993 lampooned the consent policy adopted by Ohio’s Antioch College with a game show titled “Is It Date Rape?”

“May I elevate the level of sexual intimacy by feeling your buttocks?” the male asks.

“Yes. You have my permission,” the woman replies.

Since then, the affirmative approach has gained so much acceptance that many campuses, including private schools such as Santa Clara University, now use a similar standard. They say the bill, which also requires outreach and prevention programs on assault, dating violence and stalking, would require only a tweak in their policies.

The UC system rewrote its sexual assault policies in the spring to that effect; all three of the state’s public college systems back the bill, and no colleges officially opposed it.

The legislation does have its critics. A Los Angeles Times editorial said it would be “extremely difficult and extraordinarily intrusive to micromanage sex so closely as to tell young people what steps they must take in the privacy of their own dorm rooms.”

But the bill’s proponents say those who think seeking consent is awkward, unrealistic or moodkilling miss the point.

“If I’m with another person, I always check in to make sure they’re comfortable,” said Meghan Warner, a Cal junior who founded Greeks Against Sexual Assault and leads training on consent. “It doesn’t have to be like, ‘Hello, will you sign this bedroom contract?’” she said. “It’s an ongoing conversation.”

Still, some are uneasy about the legislation, and argue the existing legal definitions of rape should suffice.

The new rules will lead to “too many punitive situations” for young men, said a spokesman for the San Diego-based National Coalition for Men. “Of course I agree that people should actually consent, but the world doesn’t work that way,” said J. Steven Svoboda. “There’s no way to legislate the ambiguities away.”

The American Council on Education also has expressed concern. “I think that one needs to understand that both ‘yes’ and

‘no’ have specific meanings, but that they aren’t always going to be expressed quite so clearly when there are young people who are engaged in activities,” said its general counsel, Ada Meloy.

The standard could be tough for universities to implement, said UC Hastings School of Law Professor and Provost Elizabeth Hillman. Colleges need to promote respectful and responsible sexual behavior, she said, but they aren’t equipped to investigate all sexual assault complaints -and the new law could make that task more difficult.

“I think we are making progress,” she said. “There’s just a risk of going too far and having negative effects instead of positive effects.”

But some say that even if imperfect, the legislation sets an important standard: knowing -- not guessing -- whether your advances are desired. “It gives you less of an excuse to say, ‘I didn’t know,’” said E. J. Morera, a Cal freshman.

Does the prospect of being unjustly accused -- and disciplined -- under such a policy make him nervous? “I feel like if it makes you nervous,” he said, “I think you’re doing something wrong.”

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culture » Radius 99 story continued from page 1

As the concept changes, the students’ roles changes too.

Every week their duties rotate so that everyone can learn a wide range of restaurant jobs.

It’s been five years since the instructors decided to change the theme of the restaurant every fall. The first one was a noodle bar, then a taqueria, a mediterranean restaurant and eventually Dot’s Diner.

Hammerich said they realized changing the concept kept things fresh and the students

challenged. This time, though, they might keep Radius 99 for longer, since it’s not a particular cuisine, Hammerich said, and change the menu based on the seasons.

“It’s a hope that we’ll be able to take this concept and bring it to the Cafeteria,” he said. “It’s more the spirit than anything else.”

Three days after the opening the outcome seemed positive.

“People came and we had some good sales,” Marinese said.

Top: Culinary arts and hospitality studies students prepare for the grand opening of the new Ocean campus restaurant Radius 99 on Wednesday, Aug. 27, at Ocean campus. The menu features food procured from vendors no further than 100 miles from campus.

Photos by Nathaniel Y. Downes

Left: Beef Bulgogi Sliders with Korean BBQ sauce and pickled cucumber relish is one of the items on the menu.

Sarinee Wangpongkul, a third semester culinary arts and hospitality studies student, hand squeezes lemons for the rosemary citrus sparkling. Each week, Radius 99 offers a new specialty drink prepared from student’s original recipe.

Giacomo Savoia, a third semester culinary arts and hospitality studies student, prepares the sandwich station for the grand opening.

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Clockwise: City College instructor Benjamic Bac Sierra speaks to attendees of the rally in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse at 450 Golden Gate Avenue where the family of Alejandro Nieto will file papers asking for a civil lawsuit on Aug. 22.

(Photo by Nathaniel Y. Downes) Friends, family and community members march from the Alex Nieto Memorial at Bernal Heights Park to The Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse at 450 Golden Gate Ave. to honor Alex Nieto on the 5-month anniversary of his death.

(Photo by Khaled Sayed) Aztec dancers mark the 5-month anniversary of the death of Alejandro Nieto with a ceremony of prayers, music and dance at sunrise at the Alex Nieto Memorial in Bernal Heights Park. (Photo

by Nathaniel Y. Downes) Lorena de la Rosa burns sage in an Aztec ceremony that symbolizes cleansing, purifying and protecting of the physical and spiritual bodies during the sunset vigil in honor of Alejandro Nieto at the 5-month anniversary of his death in Bernal Heights Park. (Photo by Niko Plagakis)

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culture Spotlight: Student Louie Gutierrez gives back to the community

By Charles Innis

@sfbreakingnews cinnis@theguardsman.com

The Guardsman

City College alumni and returning student Louie Gutierrez has been serving disenfranchised communities for decades, whether it’s leading a traditional Aztec dance group or working his weekly radio show.

Gutierrez graduated from City College in 1989 and has a master’s degree in Chicano studies from University of California, Berkeley. He returned to City College this semester to take journalism courses.

His goal was to sharpen his writing and photography so that he could improve his reporting skills and provide more service to the communities.

“The Aztec dancing is community oriented, so we also have to think of the community before we do the dancing,”

Gutierrez said. “The journalism in a sense does the same thing. It helps me to give back to the community.”

His weekly radio show, “The Roseland Report,” airs every Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on KBBF 89.1.

Every week he openly invites guests from diverse backgrounds to speak on civil rights issues affecting Latino and other groups.

“Anyone who might want to use it that has an issue can use it,” Gutierrez said.

Subjects he’s covered include immigration, the police killing of former City College student Alex Nieto and the current unrest in Ferguson, Mo. Gutierrez said the radio show takes its name from the Roseland district in Santa Rosa, a predominantly Latino neighborhood that has dealt with generations of neglect.

“The streetlamps are not all correct. Some of the streets don’t have curbs on it,” he said.

While living in the Roseland district in 2010, Gutierrez published La Espina Del Norte, a bilingual newspaper focusing on concerns facing the Latino community.

Gutierrez moved back to the Mission District of San Francisco after the paper’s cessation in 2012.

He now works at his family’s traditional Mexican-style bakery, La Reyna, on 24th and Folsom streets.

When he’s not selling pastries or running the Roseland Report, he practices in an Aztec dance group twice a week.

The group, Coyolxauqui, has performed at numerous events, including Cesar Chavez Day, Day of the Dead and May Day marches.

“We lead the marches. We’re in front of the line and we’re praying as we’re dancing,” Gutierrez said.

Coyolxauqi last performed at Alex Nieto’s vigil on Aug. 22.

Louie Gutierrez leads the Aug. 22 march in honor of Alejandro Nieto with his Aztec dance group Coyolxauqi down Van Ness Avenue. (Photo by Nathaniel Y. Downes)

Restoration begins for historic Mission District carnival mural

By Calindra Revier

@sfbreakingnews crevier@theguardsman.com

The Guardsman

The iconic mural at 24th Street & South Van Ness Avenue, which was based on photographs by City College guest lecturer Lou Dematteis, is being restored after 30 years by local artists.

Community artist Daniel Galvez originally created the mural 30 years ago. Galvez, together with Mauricio Aviles and Dematteis, form the Carnival Mural Restoration Committee.

The committee was waiting for the last signature that had delayed the finalization of the contract for the mural. After that signature, the contract still had to be approved by the city of San Francisco.

“Everyone wanted to make sure they were not going to be held liable if there were any problems,” Dematteis said.

The $50,000 grant received from the city, however, was significantly less than the requested amount. With this knowledge, Galvez expects that he will have to complete the project in less time than expected.

“We can make it on the skin of our teeth on the $50,000 award,” Galvez said. “We actually requested $58,000.”

Although challenging, the lack of funds will not be a deterrent. Plans for fundraising are already circulating and with help from the community, the final amount needed to complete the project will likely be raised.

Aviles, also a cultural activist for the Latino community, held a formal press conference on Aug 29. that announced the project had begun earlier that month.

There will be two major changes in the restoration process, the first being the artistic medium used.

“Last time I did this I used an oil-based enamel and it didn’t really hold well over

time, I found out, so I’ll be using acrylic,” said Galvez. “It’s a water-based medium. It’s flexible and it can move.”

The second change will be the superior varnish.

“I’ll be applying a new varnish that is specially formulated for outdoor mural work.” Galvez said. “The chemistry will add to the color facets, and length of time [that] the material holds up under severe weather conditions.”

Three of the original four artists who accompanied Galvez will be participating in the restoration: Dan Fonts, Jaime

Morgan and Jan Shield.

“It hasn’t been easy,” said Dematteis, a photographer and guest lecturer at City College of San Francisco. “We got a lot of letters of support that were a part of our submission to the city.”

But Dematteis said he believes the restoration is symbolic of something more profound.

“It’s also part of an artistic pushback to what is happening in the Mission District,” he said. “To preserve the art and culture of the neighborhood, a lot of artists have stepped up, like Alejandro Murguia, one

of the coolest current poet laureates of San Francisco.”

The projected start date was Aug. 1, after which it will take about four months to complete the restoration of the mural.

“It’s a fine line between the political situation and the arts,” Aviles said. “And a lot of these artists have committed themselves to fight for the community and the mural is a very strong part of that.”

Dan Fontes, one of the original artists of the Carnaval mural on 24th Street at South Van Ness Avenue, works on the mural’s restoration on Thursday, Aug. 28. (Photo by Nathaniel Y. Downes)

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opinion We must overcome these toxic perspectives, eradicate oppression

By Ariana Bindman @sfbreakingnews news@theguardsman.com

contributor

Walk Against Rape rally, march on April 26. Sign reads: No more silence. (Photo by Elisa Parrino)

EVENTS 09/05

“Hey girl, what’s your fuckin’ problem?” said the man in the blue hoodie as he grabbed me by the shoulders, putting me in a situation that I have become all too familiar; situations that I have been told to expect to happen to me since I was a little girl.

“Stop it,” I yelled, as I wrenched out of his grasp and stormed down Geary Street. I clutched my bag to my chest and smoothed down my summer dress.

Sexual violence, which rears its ugly head at one in every four women in the U.S., is a form of oppression that shapeshifts from verbal to physical, and contributes to the core issues of rape culture.

It’s appalling that women’s bodies are inherently sexualized, and that women are expected to deal with that reality by compromising their very existence.

What a woman wears, how much she has to drink or what time she chooses to walk at night does not excuse any form of violence. Yet, we are conditioned to believe that the victim insti-

gates sexual violence depending on these factors.

Not too long ago, one of my best friends called me crying on the phone at 2 a.m. She was shaken because a group of men threw glass bottles at her for not reciprocating their advances.

The next day, her arms were riddled with red cuts from the glass shards that flew in her direction. The only response my roommate had to this incident was “Well, she should have known better than to wear that party dress while walking home.”

Pathetic excuses likes these only perpetuate the notion that the victim “allowed” these instances to happen to them, and that they were somehow “asking for it.”

Well, I didn’t ask to be followed and then groped on the street while wearing a shapeless, floor length maxi-skirt.

I didn’t ask to get told by a man sitting next to me on MUNI that I “looked good” while he stuck his hand between my legs.

My roommate didn’t ask to get chased back into our apartment one night when she decided to take a walk alone.

My friend, who was just 15 years old at the time, didn’t ask to get raped by the Marine who gave her vodka until she passed out.

But the worst part about these

situations is that the real perpetrators were never exposed.

While I was getting harassed on MUNI, passengers uncomfortably stared in my direction, but chose not to intervene.

When I overheard my roommate sobbing to her boyfriend about getting chased down the street, he vehemently responded with “bullshit.”

When my friend was caught getting carried home because she was still too drunk from the night before, families in the neighborhood were disgusted by her because they “knew she would do this.”

We must overcome these toxic perspectives revolving around rape culture, and recognize who the real instigators of sexual violence are: the people who think it’s acceptable to monopolize the body of another human being.

The people who treat other people like resources ought to be exploited and expunged by their consumer until they are left with nothing but guilt and self-loathing.

Ultimately, it’s up to us to eradicate this system of oppression and to speak out against the socially acceptable forms of violence that constantly beleaguer us. In the words of Wendy Davis, “I’ll not yield.”

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City College Self-Evaluation Friday Forum. Focus on Standard I: Institutional Mission and Effectiveness. From 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Diego Rivera Theatre at Ocean campus.

09/07

“Claiming our Voice” free film screening about South-Asian domestic workers and discussion with director Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel. From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Oakstop Coworking, Suite 201, 1721 Broadway, Oakland.

09/08

Global Town Hall and International Forum’s monthly discussion group: “After Gaza: Further From Peace?” 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at World Affairs Council Auditorium, Suite 200, 312 Sutter St. Free for members, $7 for students.

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City College Self-Evaluation Friday Forum. Focus on Standard II: Student Learning Programs and Services. From 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Room 304, Rosenberg Library at Ocean campus.

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sports calendar football Sept. 6, 1 p.m. vs Sierra @ HOME

Sept. 12, 7 p.m. vs Laney @ AWAY Sept. 20, 1 p.m. vs Fresno @ HOME

Soccer men:

Sept. 5, 11 a.m. vs. Mira Costa Spartans @ Consumnes River College Sept. 6, 1 p.m. vs. Consumnes River @ AWAY Sept. 12, 4 p.m. vs. Merrit College @ AWAY

Women:

Sept. 7 12 p.m. vs Cypress College @ HOME Sept. 12 3:30 p.m. vs Lassen College @ HOME

Volleyball

Sept. 4, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m vs American River vs Feather River @ American River College Sept. 10 3, 5 and 7 p.m. vs Laney vs Yuba vs Simpson U. @ HOME

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